shri vinod sharma - Rajya Sabha

provide links on our websites and there is no excuse by media that there is no
space.
SHRI N.C. JOSHI: Actually, our synopsis of debate is put on the website on the
same day and it is in the MS Word form, it is not in PDF. So, whatever you want
you can just select and use it for your purpose. This is just by way of information.
SHRI VINOD SHARMA: This relates to the operational issues. There is a space
limitation. To condense a debate which lasted four or five hours into 700 words,
which is the maximum limit and which most of the newspaper have these days for
important stories, it requires a degree of writing skill. If you have adequate writing
skill, then you can perhaps condense that debate into 700 words. It is a difficult
task, but you can perhaps do it, but not every person can be individually quoted
and the solution to this is that these Members of Parliament make sure that what
they are saying, what is their take on the issue under debate gets published in the
newspapers which are circulated in their areas. They have a solution to that but
otherwise it is only the Internet, the web where too the reporter has to write about
2500 words in order to quote every single Member of Parliament. Most Members of
Parliament, you know, are also repetitive. They are repeating only in order to
become part of institutional memory of Parliament that they participated in this
debate and they could tell the newspapers catering to their area that look this is
what we said. It is a difficult task but can be managed but not with 100 per cent
satisfaction of anyone.
MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: Our synopsis is not the entire debate. It is our
Reporters who are doing the full version. The synopsis is not of more than 100 or
150 words.
SHRI VINOD SHARMA: In important debates individual parties are there and one
person from that party is quoted. So, for instance, in No Confidence Motion you
would see that in blurbs newspapers are carrying the views of one Member per